Gardening editor Mark Cullen shares how to grow your own birdseed

Author Peter Wohlleben reveals the hidden life of trees and forests in his compassionate and fascinating new book.

We dropped in the Royal Winter Fair in Toronto, Ontario. And, we found these dudes. Alpacas are gentle animal with hair that makes wool on par with cashmere. Dee Grant an alpaca farmer and alpaca hair knitter tells us about the animal’s nature, and her rare twin alpacas. Plus, alpacas!

Martha died at the ripe old age of 29, the last in a very long string of Passenger Pigeons. She was the namesake of Martha Washington – President George Washington’s wife – who herself had suffered an earlier extinction incident in the spring of 1802.

The planet’s honeybees are dying off in unprecedented numbers. But just what exactly is causing the deaths has beekeepers and farmers sifting through research and sometimes reaching contradictory conclusions.